Near real time API Monitoring with Grafana and PostgreSQL
Introduction
Suppose you have a distributed application running in production and it is based on Micro services/Service Oriented Architecture and have SLA of being “always on” (be available 24*7, barring deployments of course !!). In such cases, having proper monitoring of Application health in place is absolutely essential.
What if Monitoring is an afterthought (i.e. application is already in production) ? and that there is little apetite for additional components like (Visualization tools, specialized storage for logs/metrics/traces) for monitoring?